A.
The purpose of this chapter is to ensure that the
Town complies with all applicable state and federal laws regulating
wastewater disposal and to address ongoing operational and maintenance
problems faced by the Town’s sewer districts. This is particularly
crucial in Sewer District 6, which is located in an environmentally
sensitive area and is served by a rudimentary treatment plant and
technology that requires significant resources to operate properly.
B.
Included in this purpose are the following:
(1)
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the
wastewater systems, which will interfere with the operation of the
systems or contaminate the resulting sludge, particularly by industrial
users.
(2)
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the
wastewater systems which will pass through the system inadequately
treated into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible
with the systems, particularly by industrial users.
(3)
To regulate excess flows that strain existing treatment
plants’ pollutant removal capabilities and efficiencies.
(4)
To eliminate grit, oils and grease from the sewer
discharge because of its damaging effects on the sewer collection
system piping, requiring greater than normal maintenance, and because
of its detrimental effect on the treatment plants’ primary treatment
units, which substances are primarily released by industrial users.
(5)
To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim
wastewaters and sludges from the systems.
(6)
To provide for a more equitable distribution of the
cost of the wastewater systems.
(7)
To protect both wastewater system personnel who may
be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment
and also to protect the general health and safety of the public and
the environment.
(8)
To protect the wastewater system in District 6 where
nonresidential and industrial uses impact the system in terms of quantity
and quality of sewage. Their waste includes inorganic materials, organic
materials, chemicals, pollutants and other substances not typically
discharged from residences into the sewer system, which discharges
have a greater impact on the treatment facility.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the inner face
of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
A sewer which carries both sanitary sewage and storm- and
surface water.
Sewer District Nos. 1, 5 and 6 of the Town of New Paltz,
Ulster County, New York.
The physical boundaries as presently established or as may
be extended from time to time as duly provided by Town law for Sewer
District Nos. 1, 5 and 6.
The professional engineer retained as Engineer for the Town
of New Paltz or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Any nonresidential user of the Town’s sanitary sewer
system which user is identified in the 1997 NAICS (North American
Industry Classification System) United States Structure, as amended
and supplemented, under one of the following divisions:
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11
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Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
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21
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Mining
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31-33
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Manufacturing
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56
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Waste Management and Remediation Services
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72
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Accommodation and Food Services
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81
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Other Services (except Public Administration)
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Any discarded matter, including any liquid, gaseous or solid
substance, or combination thereof, resulting from any industrial user,
excluding natural gas and oil production by-products.
[Amended 11-15-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
The use of land for geological or geophysical activities
related to the search for natural gas, oil or other subsurface hydrocarbons,
including prospecting, geophysical and geological seismic surveying
and sampling techniques, which include but are not limited to core
or rotary drilling or making an excavation in the search and evaluation
of natural gas, oil or other subsurface hydrocarbon deposits.
[Added 11-15-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
The use of land for the purpose of extracting, developing
and producing natural gas, oil or other subsurface hydrocarbons from
subsurface deposits. Natural gas and oil extraction includes storage
or construction staging yards associated with an oil or gas extraction
operation, and gas pipelines, water lines and other gathering systems
and components, including but not limited to drip stations, vent stations,
injection stations and valve boxes associated with a natural gas or
oil extraction operation.
[Added 11-15-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
Any refuse, sludge or other waste materials, whether or not
recycled or reused or intended to be recycled or reused, including
solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material that results
from, is associated with or is produced as a by-product of natural
gas and oil exploration or extraction, including, without limitation,
production brine, produced waters, flowback, flowback fluids and hydraulic
fracturing fluids.
[Added 11-15-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
An individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the “Clean Water
Act,” as amended, (33 USC § 1292), which is owned
by the Town. This shall include any sewers and appurtenances that
transport wastewater to the POTW treatment plant but does not include
pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected directly or indirectly
to a facility providing treatment.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground-, surface and storm waters as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds
for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times
the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal
operation.
A classification pursuant to the latest edition and amendments
of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the US
Office of Management and Budget.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage
but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
Water and Sewer Supervisor as appointed by the Town of New
Paltz to supervise the operation of the sewer and water systems of
the Town.
Solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
The Town of New Paltz, Ulster County, New York.
The duly elected Town Board of the Town of New Paltz or its
authorized deputy or representative.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
